Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Resupinatus niger (Schw.) Murrill
Agaricus {Pleuropus) niger Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1: 90. 1822. Agaricus {Pleurotus) niger Fries, Elench. Fung. 1: 26. 1828. Pleurotus niger Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 380. 1887.
Pileus small, thin, subresupinate to cup-shaped or fan-shaped, often attached by the vertex, not pellucid, gregarious, not imbricate, 4-6 mm. broad; surface black, opaque, pulverulent, smooth, blackish-villose behind, margin plicate, concolorous: lamellae radiating from the point of attachment, broad, black, rather crowded, the edges at first cinereous: spores subglobose, smooth, hyaline, 4-5 /z.
Type locality: North Carolina.
Habitat: On dead bark and wood.
Distribution: Throughout temperate and tropical North America.
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso MurrilI, Gertrude Simmons BurIingham, Leigh H Pennington, John Hendly Barnhart. 1907-1916. (AGARICALES); POLYPORACEAE-AGARICACEAE. North American flora. vol 9. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
